From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrvUC-0004LN-5T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 700F6E08C3; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB1EE08C3 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E630567681 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.288 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.288 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.689, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0RP6l9sNAa7u for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DC067625 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MrvTu-0002Hg-Rr for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:16:10 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-181-142.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.181.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:16:10 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-181-142.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:16:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is my machine too old for virtualbox? Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:15:46 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20090927132803.GA5562@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-181-142.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090927 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <20090927132803.GA5562@waltdnes.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 971d3002-158e-4f8c-9af1-a976a9bb7976 X-Archives-Hash: 3803db6b76ae1fe5b94d50068e50839b On 09/27/2009 06:28 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I installed Sun's virtualbox manually, because portage couldn't build > it. DMESG says... > > kvm: no hardware support > > ...and during bootup, I get... > > * Starting VirtualBox kernel module ... > * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why Well, that's all a bit strange. 'kvm' is one of the two kernel modules used by kvm (naturally) which is a completely different product from vbox. kvm is great for machines with hardware virtualization support, but doesn't work at all without it. VirtualBox OTOH does not need hardware support at all and uses its own kernel module name vboxdrv (has nothing to do with kvm). I'm thinking you looked at the wrong part of dmesg -- but why there is an error message there from kvm I can't guess. I'm using the vbox svn repository from Sun, so I haven't tried building the portage version. What problem do you see?